linux/net/dccp/ccids/Kconfig
Gerrit Renker 0e64e94e47 [DCCP]: Update documentation references.
Updates the references to spec documents throughout the code, taking into
account that

* the DCCP, CCID 2, and CCID 3 drafts all became RFCs in March this year

* RFC 1063 was obsoleted by RFC 1191

* draft-ietf-tcpimpl-pmtud-0x.txt was published as an Informational
  RFC, RFC 2923 on 2000-09-22.

All references verified.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-10-24 16:17:51 -07:00

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menu "DCCP CCIDs Configuration (EXPERIMENTAL)"
depends on IP_DCCP && EXPERIMENTAL
config IP_DCCP_CCID2
tristate "CCID2 (TCP-Like) (EXPERIMENTAL)"
depends on IP_DCCP
def_tristate IP_DCCP
select IP_DCCP_ACKVEC
---help---
CCID 2, TCP-like Congestion Control, denotes Additive Increase,
Multiplicative Decrease (AIMD) congestion control with behavior
modelled directly on TCP, including congestion window, slow start,
timeouts, and so forth [RFC 2581]. CCID 2 achieves maximum
bandwidth over the long term, consistent with the use of end-to-end
congestion control, but halves its congestion window in response to
each congestion event. This leads to the abrupt rate changes
typical of TCP. Applications should use CCID 2 if they prefer
maximum bandwidth utilization to steadiness of rate. This is often
the case for applications that are not playing their data directly
to the user. For example, a hypothetical application that
transferred files over DCCP, using application-level retransmissions
for lost packets, would prefer CCID 2 to CCID 3. On-line games may
also prefer CCID 2.
CCID 2 is further described in RFC 4341,
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4341.txt
This text was extracted from RFC 4340 (sec. 10.1),
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4340.txt
If in doubt, say M.
config IP_DCCP_CCID2_DEBUG
bool "CCID2 debug"
depends on IP_DCCP_CCID2
---help---
Enable CCID2 debug messages.
If in doubt, say N.
config IP_DCCP_CCID3
tristate "CCID3 (TCP-Friendly) (EXPERIMENTAL)"
depends on IP_DCCP
def_tristate IP_DCCP
---help---
CCID 3 denotes TCP-Friendly Rate Control (TFRC), an equation-based
rate-controlled congestion control mechanism. TFRC is designed to
be reasonably fair when competing for bandwidth with TCP-like flows,
where a flow is "reasonably fair" if its sending rate is generally
within a factor of two of the sending rate of a TCP flow under the
same conditions. However, TFRC has a much lower variation of
throughput over time compared with TCP, which makes CCID 3 more
suitable than CCID 2 for applications such streaming media where a
relatively smooth sending rate is of importance.
CCID 3 is further described in RFC 4342,
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4342.txt
The TFRC congestion control algorithms were initially described in
RFC 3448.
This text was extracted from RFC 4340 (sec. 10.2),
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4340.txt
If in doubt, say M.
config IP_DCCP_TFRC_LIB
depends on IP_DCCP_CCID3
def_tristate IP_DCCP_CCID3
endmenu